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View Rights PortalMahmoud Al-Zein is the head of the Al-Zein clan, one ofthe most influential large families in GermanyStark, controversial, unsanitised: the brutal truth about violence,power and honour Arab clans rule Germany’s inner cities and are often in the headlines. One of the most influential of these large families is the Al-Zeins. Their family head, Mahmoud Al-Zein, is known as the notorious Godfather of Berlin. Now, he is the first to break his silence and to give a no-holds-barred account of the inner working of his family organisation: his journey to the top, conflicts with law, time in prison, feuds with rivals, the law of the family and the brutal fight for supremacy on the streets. An incomparable insight into Arab lansand a report on German day-to-day reality.
Abdullah kommt aus Syrien. Er ist 16, als er aus seinem Heimatort Ar-Raqqa flieht. Sein älterer Bruder wurde verschleppt, sein Vater bei einem Bombenangriff getötet. Weil die Bedrohung immer größer wurde, stattete seine Familie ihn mit Geld aus. Abdullah schlug sich nach Deutschland durch. In einem Jugendheim findet er Sicherheit und ein neues Zuhause. Doch das Ankommen ist nicht leicht: Hautnah erlebt Abdullah, dass Flüchtlinge wie er als "Islamratten" beschimpft werden. Ständig spürt er misstrauische Blicke. Doch er bekommt auch immer wieder freundliche Hilfe, die ihm Hoffnung gibt. Hoffnung auf seine Zukunft in Deutschland, in einer Welt ohne Krieg.
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players, it highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Pakistan, and Britain, combined with innovative use of cartographic sources, the book paints a vivid picture of both the partition process and the Radcliffe line's impact on Punjab. This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition, and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia's independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes.
This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists' fascination with Romanticised and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European social philosophy, and traces the implementation and impacts of these ideologies in the Syrian context. Emphasising the emergence of new forms of public gendered identity in Syria as a unifying feature of nationalism bound closely with the stability of the regime, the book shows how Romantic, muscular nationalism first rose to hegemony and then was shattered by its inherent violence, contradictions and inequalities. The final chapter closes by considering how a new vision of pluralism and civic belonging is today challenging the Romanticised Baathist ideal in contention for Syria's future.